Awards and recipients are: The ATHENA Award, Rae Bond, executive director of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society and Medical Foundation; Corporate Compass Award, G.R. Rush and Company; Lightkeeper Award, Sandi Brock, program director of the Southeast Women's Business Center; Navigator of Entrepreneurship Award, Kary Klein, president of SmartHireHR; Pearl of Promise Award, Elizabeth Proctor, Red Bank High School senior.
Other finalists were Kary Klein, president of SmartHireHR; and Pam Ladd, owner of Custom Custodial.
Kary Klein, SmartHireHR president, was cited for transforming a temp agency into a full service human resources firm; for exceptional efforts on behalf of her clients and for nurturing her staff.